Here we are.
The third review. I could really write anything, but following my theme of plot
twists, I’m going to review the biggest plot twist movie that we’ve watched in
this class; Memento.
*I apologise
to all of those who though I was writing about HP and this fabulous spell that
only comes up once throughout the whole movie series! But alas, I must stay
within the rules of the project and review something that we’ve watched in the
class. Unfortunately. I'm looking at you Edwards!*
So Memento.
This film came out in 2000 and was the first of many Christopher Nolan films
that are full of plot twists on top of plot twists. The film follows Leonard as
he attempts to find his wife’s killer. But the first of many plot twists
appears when the film has two streaming time lines at once; one in colour and
one in black and white, with the colour timeline going backwards and the black
and white going in chronological order. This modern film noir plays homage to
the genre with shadows and low camera angles to boot. Not to mention all of the
creepy tattoos that our main man Lenny has.
In attempt
to give some content to this review, I will *try* to summarize the movie. So
this guy Leonard has short term memory loss and in attempt to combat this, he
write everything down and has tattoos all over his body that help him find his
wife’s killer. He knows several things, including the killers name, licence
plate number and that he is a drug dealer. So for the entirety of this movie,
Lenny runs around with this guy Teddy as the viewer gets constantly more
confused as time goes on.
Flash
forward to the ending and PLOT TWIST! Teddy is an under cover cop and Leonard
has already killed his wife’s killer, but he forgot about it. But PLOT TWIST
AGAIN, Leonard then kills Teddy for not telling him about it and leading around
in circles for the past year looking for a guy that is dead. After Leonard learns this, he writes down Teddy's licence plate number. PLOT TWIST AGAIN! Leonard is able to remember to kill Teddy long enough to lead himself back to Teddy later on. What?!
So this leads
the view to question what Leonard actually remembers or if his condition is
fixed and he’s just lying to himself to keep the chase that he loves so much
alive. Mind = blown!
This movie
took me forever to figure out! I think that if it wasn’t for those two
story lines playing at once, I would have got it. But then again, part of what I
loved about this movie was trying to figure out what is going on and coming up
with different theories on how it will end. Again, continuing with the theme of
plot twists and thought provoking movies with these reviews, this movie falls
right into this. No there is no Jim Carrey in it, but everything can’t be about
ground breaking Jim Carrey movies. Sadly.
A lot of
people didn’t like this movie understand this movie and because of this, they
didn’t like it. But again, this movie makes you think and wonder about how much
people actually understand and what they make themselves forget in order to
keep that chase alive like our man Lenny.
I feel like
I’m making no sense, but then again, this movie doesn’t make a lot of sense
when you first watch it.
I give it
9.8 PLOT TWISTS out of 10 MINDS = BLOWN
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